enforce

verb enforces · enforcing · enforced · inforce

1. To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force. The police are there to enforce the law.
2. To apply a rule or enforcement action to a person or user account. This will give us the tools we need to enforce accounts like these.
3. To give strength or force to; to affirm, to emphasize. The victim was able to enforce his evidence against the alleged perpetrator.
4. obsolete, transitive To strengthen (a castle, town etc.) with extra troops, fortifications etc.
5. obsolete, transitive To intensify, make stronger, add force to.
6. obsolete, reflexive To exert oneself, to try hard. I pray you enforce youreselff at that justis that ye may be beste, for my love.
7. obsolete To compel, oblige (someone or something); to force. Sweete prince I come, these these thy amorous lines, / Might haue enforst me to haue swum from France, / And like Leander gaspt vpon the sande, / So thou wouldst smile and take me in thy armes.
8. obsolete To make or gain by force; to force. to enforce a passage
9. obsolete To put in motion or action by violence; to drive. Auster and Aquilon with winged Steeds All ſweating, tilt about the watery heauens, With ſhiuering ſpeares enforcing thunderclaps, And from their ſhields ſtrike flames of lightening
10. obsolete To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to energize. to enforce arguments or requests
11. obsolete To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon. In this point charge him home, that he affects / Tyrannical power: if he evade us there, / Enforce him with his envy to the people, / And that the spoil got on the Antiates / Was ne’er distributed.
12. obsolete To prove; to evince. But what argument are ye able to shew, whereby it was euer prooued by Caluin, that any one sentence of Scripture doth necessarily enforce these things, or the rest wherein your opinion concurreth with his against the orders of your owne Church?